Rethink the Future

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Keynotes, Consulting, and Strategic Advice to help organizations RETHINK constraints and turn them into their distinct advantage. 


AI | Trust | Futures

What constraints keep you from breaking through?

Too many organizations are stuck, jammed or trapped, held not by immovable obstacles, but by beliefs and assumptions. When you breach those beliefs, new fields of opportunity appear.

Why rethink your constraints?

Your most useful constraints can be invisible to you. Identifying them, then rethinking them, consistently reveals the source of your organization’s distinct advantage.


For example: Wikipedia started as Nupedia, with a 7-layer editorial process born of the assumption that only experts should edit an encyclopedia. Adopting a wiki platform also meant leaving the traditional editorial process, and instead relying on the intelligence of crowds.

Are you wondering...

How Do We Shift Our Thinking?

By Jerry Michalski • 11 Jul, 2024
We really believe what we believe

Which Constraints Matter Most?

By Jerry Michalski • 11 Jul, 2024
The obvious constraints aren't often the useful ones

What Am I Not Seeing?

By Jerry Michalski • 20 Jun, 2024
Hidden value is often right in front of you

THE FOUR-STAGE FRAMEWORK

Discover and reshape the constraints that are your breakthrough: A four-step journey of innovation and creativity.

01

See

Some constraints, often the most important ones, can be invisible to you. Learn to see them.

02

Shift

Now imagine a world in which that constraint has been changed. What shifts in your perspective?

03

Shape

What new forms will your organization and markets need to fulfill this new perspective?

04

Set

Now set a course and set things in motion to make your new strategy a reality.

BENEFITS

Here’s what you’ll experience when you rethink constraints:

You could continue with business as usual. But distinct advantages are there for those who search deeper and catalyze positive change.

Knowing where you're heading

The press and stress of competition doesn't give us enough time (or neural capacity) to look up, never mind look around. Looking around is essential to see if we're headed in the right direction. 


Rethinking your constraints leads to innovative visions of positive futures for your enterprise, and usually for related stakeholders. 

Many constraints break trust

Traditional consumer advertising seems essential for a consumer-products company, but it involves a series of breaches of trust, including invasions of privacy, manipulation, and unwanted noise. 


What does getting the word out about your products and services look like if it's genuinely trustworthy? 

Change the rules & stand out

When you shatter your industry's constraints, your competitors will be hard pressed to follow. 


Important constraints take more than planning and execution to shift. They require a shift of perspective and attitude, for a start. Then they take great planning and execution. 

The path to meaning and purpose

Many of the boundaries we cross in our work are also barriers to people finding meaning in their work. Breaking those boundaries frees people to do work that is more aligned with their values, rather than compromising them. 


Meaning and purpose don't require employee engagement campaigns; they require rethinking your business so it better aligns with their values.

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Having Jerry as an advisor has helped us tremendously! Every meeting that we've had with him has greatly expanded our horizons about what's possible when blending tech, learning and community.

Gabriela Constantinescu and Alex Poe, co-founders of Chambr

Years ago when we first met, Jerry, I like so many were a bit ahead of the next wave of potential for AI that has now proven ubiquitous. You were among those few who left indelible knowledge in me for what was possible.

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Doug Pinkham, president, Public Affairs Council

Jerry Michalski is one of the brightest, most engaging speakers who has ever participated in our leadership events. Jerry’s presentations help us understand the present, imagine the future and question our assumptions about what it means to work and play. 

Hi, I'm Jerry

From "software seer" to strategist.

I help organizations see what they can't see, then use those insights to create their distinctive advantages.

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All the topics I care about and speak about I curate in my external Brain, which is the world's largest, public, hand-made mind-map. More on the Brain page.

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Genuine transformation seems elusive, especially when you have little time to look up.


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